Passenger, caught 23/9/2006 (National moth night).

Mothing at St Margaret's

Most of the Moth lists and Photographs are from my garden (TR359450) in the village of St Margaret's at Cliffe in Kent. It is situated about 1Km from the sea and has farmland with in 100 metres. The garden is well shrubbed and about 1600 sq metres. I normally run a 125 MV lamp and a 15W actinic light over-night and once the season gets going a couple of other traps. At the moment both are 25W black Lamps. previously I used a 160W blended lamp in one of them. All traps are home made. Trapping dates refer to the date the trap was put out.

Trap Update in 2017. A new 125W MV Robinson was added to a 125W MV Skinner, 15W Actinic Skinner, two 80W MV Morris modified Skinners and a 80W MVMorris Box trap.
Traps are now (2020 onwards) 2x 125W Robinsons, 2x 80W Skinner type and 1x 15W Actinic strip light on a Skinner type .

I try and identify all the Macro Moths, with the micros I am not at all systematic, I do more than I used to with the help of the new book, but there are some that do get through.


Wednesday, 11 June 2014

Species List for 10/6/2014

Back to normal!  185 moths of 39 species (nine macro). A cooler night with a minimum of 12.2 deg C. New moths for the year were Figure of Eighty and Least Carpet. In addition I watched a Humming-bird Hawk Moth nectaring on Pyramidal Orchids along the cliff top, near to the Monument this morning.


Code Taxon Vernacular Individuals
17 Hepialus lupulinus Common Swift 3
998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 4
1033 Tortrix viridana Green Oak Tortrix 1
1063 Celypha striana 6
1293 Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 1
1334 Scoparia ambigualis 1
1356 Evergestis forficalis Garden Pebble 1
1654 Tethea ocularis Figure of Eighty 1 NFY
1699 Idaea rusticata atrosignaria Least Carpet 1 NFY
1764 Chloroclysta truncata Common Marbled Carpet 2
1825 Eupithecia centaureata Lime-speck Pug 2
1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 2
1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 1
1976 Sphinx ligustri Privet Hawk-moth 3
1991 Deilephila elpenor Elephant Hawk-moth 1
2060 Spilosoma lubricipeda White Ermine 2
2061 Spilosoma luteum Buff Ermine 14
2087 Agrotis segetum Turnip Moth 1
2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 4
2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 80
2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 3
2098 Axylia putris Flame 2
2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 4
2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 21
2147 Hada plebeja Shears 2
2154 Mamestra brassicae Cabbage Moth 2
2160 Lacanobia oleracea Bright-line Brown-eye 1
2194 Mythimna albipuncta White-point 2
2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 2
2322 Apamea lithoxylaea Light Arches 1
2333 Apamea anceps Large Nutmeg 1
2334 Apamea sordens Rustic Shoulder-knot 2
2337x Oligia strigilis agg. Marbled Minor agg. 5
2380 Charanyca trigrammica Treble Lines 6
2387 Caradrina morpheus Mottled Rustic 1
2389 Paradrina clavipalpis Pale Mottled Willow 1
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